Education category: 70663 books
Physical Education, Sport and Schooling
Studies in the Sociology of Physical Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
In Britain the physical education curriculum has been experiencing a period of unrest. For many teachers the practices of decades have become problematic features of their curriculum and teaching. This book, first published in 1986, explores the experiences of teachers and pupils in programmes of...
Engineering Education Quality Assurance
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
With the rapid globalization of higher education as well as related changes in social, political, economic, and other conditions over the last 25 years there have been ever increasing expectations for higher education, in general, and Engineering Education, in particular. These expectations are often...
An Introduction to Distance Education
Understanding Teaching and Learning in a New Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
An Introduction to Distance Education is a comprehensive look at the field today, outlining current theories, practices and goals. The book reviews the influence of past distance education theory and practice, along with current changes. It outlines the practical skills and information that are essential...
Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Issues in Education
Programs, Policies, and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Understand the challenges from the voices involved-today’s LGBT youth AND the leading educators and scholars in the field!
Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Issues in Education presents LGBT youth issues through the words of the adolescents themselves, along with clear up-to-date essays about...
Cultural Diversity and Education
Foundations, Curriculum, and Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Now available in paperback, the sixth edition of this definitive text provides students a strong background in the conceptual, theoretical, and philosophical issues in multicultural education from a leading authority and scholarly leader of the field---James A. Banks.
In the opening chapter...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This groundbreaking volume brings together major figures in Disability Studies in Education (DSE) and Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore some of today’s most important issues in education. Scholars examine the achievement/opportunity gaps from both historical and contemporary perspectives, as...
by Kenneth M. Zeichner
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
"… Clear, articulate, and cogent….[Zeichner] exhibits a commitment to a vision of social justice that rightly demands the very best both from society and from those of us who work in schools, communities, and teacher education institutions." -- Michael W. Apple, From the Foreword
In...
Preparing Teachers for Inclusive Education
Case Pedagogies and Curricula for Teacher Educators
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
This book--a companion volume to Inclusive Education: A Casebook and Readings for Prospective and Practicing Teachers--is designed to assist instructors in using Inclusive Education as a text for preservice or in-service teacher education courses.
Part I (Chapters 1-5) of Preparing Teachers...
How To Pass a Test
Is this the direction of Australian education today?
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
‘The measure of how well a school suits your child, and consequently how successful it is in educating your child, does not come from looking up an unreliable and highly variable ranking on the internet. It comes from observing your child, being engaged in the school environment and building up...
Education and Social Media
Toward a Digital Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Leading scholars from a variety of disciplines explore the future of education, including social media usage, new norms of knowledge, privacy, copyright, and MOOCs.
How are widely popular social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram transforming how teachers teach, how kids learn,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Postgraduate research has undergone unprecedented change in the past ten years, in response to major shifts in the role of the university and the disciplines in knowledge production and the management of intellectual work.
New kinds of doctorates have been established that have expanded the...
Student Attainment in Higher Education
Issues, controversies and debates
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Student Attainment in Higher Education: Issues, controversies and debates is a timely exploration of student attainment in a rapidly changing higher education context and a rapidly changing world. The effects of neoliberalism and the commercialization of everyday life on education have been well documented,...
Teaching Social Foundations of Education
Contexts, Theories, and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This book, the first comprehensive, critical examination of the theory and pedagogy of the field of social foundations of education and its relevance and role within teacher education:
*Articulates central questions in the field--such as "What is social foundations?"; "Is there a social foundations...
Effective Inclusive Schools
Designing Successful Schoolwide Programs
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
How to raise the achievement of all kids, from gifted to those with severe disabilities
This book presents lessons learned from in-depth case studies of some of our most effective inclusive public schools. The authors conclusively demonstrate that schools can educate students with mild and...